topic Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . . in Installation & update

text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

__archiben — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:19:49 GMT

can anybody tell me just what i did to make all of this text appear in my floor plan?!

(it turns out it's a huge, huge text block that runs for about 10km (to scale!), but why?)

~/archiben

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:10:36 GMT

Wow! That's impressive.

Looks like you've accidentally copied, and then pasted that text from somewhere, but how you do that without looking i don't know.

Have you somehow picked the text up from another application somewhere?

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

Rob — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:30:08 GMT

That's what I call transparency in OSX coding...literally

BTW I like the name of your image ben

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

__archiben — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:31:59 GMT

s2art wrote:
Looks like you've accidentally copied, and then pasted that text from somewhere, but how you do that without looking i don't know.

Have you somehow picked the text up from another application somewhere?

nope. if you look closely it's all system frameworks and packages that are used by archiCAD. somehow it's listed them all, placed them into a centrally-justified text box and slapped it on the screen . . .

hmm.

~/archiben

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:32:59 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
somehow it's listed them all, placed them into a centrally-justified text box and slapped it on the screen . . .

Ben,

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Just to keep you reminded of all the many bits it takes to keep ArchiCAD running Besides it looks kinda cool.

Seriously though, I would imagine it is some kind of programmer's screen dump that went off by accident.

I trust that the fix is to just select and delete the text. Does it keep recurring?

Do you think it might have to do with any sumbarine adventures you've been undertaking lately?

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

__archiben — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:16:24 GMT

Matthew wrote:
I trust that the fix is to just select and delete the text. Does it keep recurring?

yep - just don't ever double click it by accident . . . takes a lonnnnnng time to load into the text-editor! and no - it doesn't recur.

Do you think it might have to do with any sumbarine adventures you've been undertaking lately?

huh? it's friday and i'm very tired . . . you might have to explain that one! [edit]oh. gotcha. no, i don't think so . . . actually, i think it had more to do with vigourously cleaning my keyboard after i smashed a glass. but i didn't notice it until a bit later. god only knows what combination i 'pressed' [/edit]

i trust the junk mail died away? mine has.

cheers!
ben

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:51:22 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
i trust the junk mail died away? mine has.

cheers!
ben

Yep. After the brief flurry I'm back to just a steady drizzle of misspelled pharmaceuticals, watches and software. I'm not sure why the identical text keeps getting by the junk filter though.

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

TomWaltz — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:59:09 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
can anybody tell me just what i did to make all of this text appear in my floor plan?!

(it turns out it's a huge, huge text block that runs for about 10km (to scale!), but why?)

~/archiben

I think you finally ticked off the wrong person at GS and this is their revenge 😉

if userName == "Ben Frost" {
    goBallistic();
}

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

__archiben — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:50:48 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
I think you finally ticked off the wrong person at GS and this is their revenge 😉
if userName == "Ben Frost" {
    goBallistic();
}

i have a sneaking suspicion if that were the case it would be far more severe . . .

~/archiben

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

James Murray — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:18:14 GMT

I can't believe that's only wtf2... thought you'd have more by now.

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

Djordje — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:10:29 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
can anybody tell me just what i did to make all of this text appear in my floor plan?!

You pasted a text that was in the clipboard ...

... yes, I ALMOST sent a printout of a proposal today with the inadvertently pasted text of along email all over the ground floor plan ...

&*(( happens, to quote Forrest Gump ... 😉

Re: text wierdness when i wasn't looking . . .

__archiben — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:58:43 GMT

Djordje wrote:
You pasted a text that was in the clipboard ...

but where did the text come from? how did it get into my clipboard? it's all archiCAD system frameworks and threads - almost like taking a sample of the running application's code or something . . . i'm sure that it happened from within archiCAD - possibly as a result of a hidden 'special menu' function . . ?

anyhow. it's not life threatening!
~/archiben